As Congress is considering health care reform, we compiled this playlist of songs for those most affected by this debate – the patients.

1. Black Lung Hazel Dickens; Coal Mining Women-C (Rounder)
2. Cancer My Chemical Romance; The Black Parade (Reprise)
3. Chemo Limo Regina Spektor; Soviet Kitsch (Sire)
4. Make It Go Away (Radiation Song) Sheryl Crow; Detours (A&M/Interscope) Talking Cancer Blues Dave Van Ronk; Van Ronk (Fantasy)
5. Who’s Gonna Feed Them Hogs Tom T. Hall; Greatest Hits-#2 (Mercury)

For more songs about this subject, see the GreenBookofSongs.com® category Pain & Healing: Medical.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, we compiled this playlist of songs about heroic astronauts, space exploration and shooting the moon. Turns out it isn’t made of green cheese!

1. Armstrong John Stewart; Cannons In The Rain (Legacy)
2. Armstrong, Aldrin And Collins Byrds; Ballad Of Easy Rider (Columbia)
3. Countdown Rush; Signals (Mercury)
4. Happy Blues For John Glenn Lightnin’ Hopkins; How Many More Years I Got (Fantasy)
5. Moondog Prefab Sprout; Jordan-The Comeback (Epic)
6. One Small Step Del Rey & The Sun Kings; I Am The Light (Trakwerx)
7. Sleeping Satellite Tasmin Archer; Great Expectations (SBK)
8. Way Up There Patti LaBelle; Single-Way Up There (Hip-O)

For more songs on this topic, see GreenBookofSongs.com® categories such as Moon, Space and Stars.

The recent death of Robert McNamara, who as Defense Secretary under Lyndon Johnson escalated the Vietnam War, reminds us of a troubled era in U.S. history. Society, even individual families, were divided by pro- and anti-war sentiment. At the center of this turmoil were American soldiers, who left brutal jungle warfare overseas only to return to hostility at home.

These songs, drawn from the GreenBookofSongs.com® category War: Vietnam, help us remember lingering pain of this conflict.

1. 8^th Of November Big & Rich; Comin’ To Your City (Warner Bros.)
2. Ballad Of The Green Berets Barry Sadler; Hits Of The Sixties-C (Intercom)
3. Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen; Born In The U.S.A. (Columbia)
4. Business Goes On As Usual Roberta Flack; Chapter Two (Atlantic)
5. Ohio Crosby, Stills & Nash; CSN (Atlantic)
6. Pinkville Helicopter Tom Parrott; Broadside Ballads-#5-Time Is Running Out (Folkways)
7. Simple Desultory Phillipic, A (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission) Simon & Garfunkel; Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (Columbia)
8. Still In Saigon Charlie Daniels Band; Windows (Epic)
9. Vietnam Veteran Still Alive Country Joe McDonald; Into The Fray (Rag Baby)